the week in wrap

such a great week! totally got my butt kicked by school. spent ALL day and i mean ALL FREAKING saturday writing a paper. but i did it. yay. and don't feel sorry for me, since i partied pretty hard on two other days. yes, i finally went up snowboarding. was the grandest day in a long time. i tried to coax a couple of long distance friends up, but no luck. i really actually had a great time by myself, as sad as that may sound. with an ipod in my ear, and chatty people on the chair, it's all good! well, maybe not all good, but i did ride hard for almost 5 hours so you gotta know i had an awesome time.
my body was really happy too. spend most of my time on this one very long, very fast and perfectly steep run i love just whipping by people and diggin' my orthotics in my boots. makes a big difference. i had much more control.

at the end of the day, i singled out this old guy to take my picture. he worked there and i totally didn't think about how he might never have used a digital camera before. he kept turning it backwards and i had to help him twice with it. i hope he heard how grateful i was and didn't feel too embarrassed. man, i hate to embarrass people! the best part was that i never actually got a picture. yup. -sigh- note to self.

the other great thing about this week, besides the boring stuff like getting my final chunk of financial aid and having my teacher tell me how much i rock (blah blah lol but really she did and who does that?) was my valiant class. man, i'm really loving those kids. this week it was cassi and her bro dylan, and josiah and sara. we had two moments where they asked some rather RAD questions. cassi said, 'were the gold plates really real?' and i was like HELL YEAH, ha ha, no, i said that they were. and then i told them about the testimony of the 3 and then the 8 witnesses and i showed them where they signed their names in the b. of m. they were all into it. totally cool. and then another time, when i was sharing a personal experience about prayer, about getting a 'no' answer and following it, cassi asked again, "how did you hear the voice of the Lord when you prayed? like did you hear actual words and stuff?" what a great moment that was! so then i told them how i actually just felt a strong feeling in my heart. that when i thought of doing the thing He wanted me to do, i felt good and at peace. but when i thought of doing the opposite, i felt kinda sick to my stomach and bad about it.

yeah, it was so cool. they listened, the Spirit was strong, those 9 and 10 year olds rule.

and then sister dick came in and gave us valentines cookies. i love church!